It’s 2016, and things are looking pretty grim. As prognosticators of the future, io9 is here to assess the present, and remind everyone that as bad things are, they can always get much, much worse—and they are much, much worse in mirror universes and parallel worlds. Here are 16 alternate realities that make the…

Did you know that Pols, the rabbit-looking things in the original Legend of Zelda, are meant to be destroyed not with arrows but by talking into a microphone? And that the Japanese version of the Zelda board game was way better than the North American one?

Lego builder and Zelda superman, Joseph Zawarda spent an insane 2 and a half years building the Hyrule Castle from the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. The19-year old recently unveiled his massive creation at Virginia’s BrickFair this August. The lego castle is so huge it takes two cars to move it.

What happens when you mash up The Legend of Zelda with Clint Eastwood? You get Hang Em Hyrule, a short fan film of a standoff between Zelda, Link and Ganon. It’s wonderfully shot, and features some pretty fantastic costumes.

Windwaker is my favorite iteration of the Legend of Zelda franchise. In fact, over the last few days, I have watching gleefully as some of the kids in my family play through the HD version of it. This Lego build of the world map by BrucilSprout has been quite useful in remembering exactly where everything is. The…

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Prima Official Game Guide Box Set is sure to fill any Zelda fan's heart containers, and starting at 11AM ET today, it'll be marked down to its lowest price ever as an Amazon Lightning Deal. At most, this price will only be available for four hours, but it could very well sell out early.

Two years ago, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata made some lofty promises about his company's approach to what was then a new venture for them: downloadable content. Nintendo, he promised, would get it right.

Mike Vasquez and Joe Hogan prove that Adventure Time mashes up well with just about everything in this series of illustrations, which dresses Finn, Jake, and all their friends as characters from Star Wars, Batman, The Walking Dead, and, of course, Game of Thrones with Finn Snow and Jake the Direwolf.

Have trouble understanding the philosophical notions proposed by Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Immanuel Kant? 8-Bit Philosophy illustrates big ideas about the nature of reality and free will using classic video games.